The global cancer burden has changed dramatically over time, with certain countries making significant strides in fighting the disease and others lagging far behind. Learn more in the new Cancer Atlas from the American Cancer Society.

“This past year I was diagnosed with a rare cervical cancer, known as glassy cell carcinoma. I underwent intense chemotherapy, radiation and brachytherapy. On November 21st I was told the tumor was no longer visible on the MRI! I am a survivor! Here’s to many more Christmas’ with my baby girl.” –Lisa Mailman from Ontario

The nonsense song, “The 12 days of Christmas” has been rumored to actually contain coded teachings of Catholicism.The rhyme has been said to be a preaching that King Henry VIII would not find out about and cut off one’s head!

This little story (found under the “Drawing Crocs” tab at the top) was written/illustrated in a children’s hospital for kids receiving treatment for cancer. It is registered in the Library of Congress under a different title. The purpose of this anecdote was to encourage and distract children from their suffering while also releasing the author’s grief at the thought of losing a daughter to the big “Cancer Crocodile.”

Weston A. Price wrote extensively on the amazing dental health of indigenous peoples worldwide. He attributed this in part to the fermented foods each culture had developed and eaten.
Today researchers are experimenting with the ferment process in foods such as apple cider vinegar and more. In fact, so much study has been done on the process of ferment in foods that there has even been a “look-alike” “fast-acting” fermented ingredient manufactured!

This ingredient used in studies; propionate, written chemically as C2H5COO− (propanoic acid minus one hydrogen ion) is naturally produced in the gut by fermented fiber, and can now be imitated. Its simulation as an inulin-propionate ester (IPE) provides much larger amounts of propionate than people can generate in a normal diet. IPE makes one feel full and may help control appetite.

“Molecules like propionate fuel the release of gut hormones that control appetite, but you need to eat enormous quantities of fiber to attain a strong effect,” said Gary Frost of Imperial’s department of medicine, who led the study.

“We wanted to find a more effectual method to transport propionate to the gut.”

In a study published in the journal Gut, Frost’s team gave 20 volunteers either IPE or inulin, a dietary fiber, and then allowed them to eat as much as they liked from a buffet.

The team found that those given IPE ate 14 percent less on average and had higher concentrations of appetite-reducing hormones in their blood.

In a second phase, 60 overweight volunteers took part in a 24-week study in which half were given IPE powder to add to their food and half given inulin.

Only one out of 25 volunteers given IPE who completed the study gained more than 3.0 percent of their body weight, compared with six out of 24 given inulin. None of the IPE group gained more than 5.0 percent of their body weight, compared with four in the inulin group.

After 24 weeks, the IPE group also had less fat in their abdomens and livers compared with the inulin group.

Frost said that while the findings were only from a small, early-stage study, they offered “encouraging signs” that IPE might help prevent weight gain in overweight people.

He and his team are working with Imperial Innovations, a technology commercialization company focused on developing promising British academic research, on taking IPE to market.

The World Health Organisation states that up to 70 per cent of cancers are preventable! Canceractive’s Cancer Prevention Main Features are divided under three headings – the three Ds:
– Diet and Lifestyle
– Dangers from environment and toxins
– Disease (from parasites to viruses to yeasts)

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CANCERactive is a charity with no vested interests – if something has research to support it, we will tell you; if it does not or it is controversial, we will tell you that too. We don´t take sides. We don´t endorse or promote. And certainly no one pays us – we take absolutely no money from anyone providing these treatments! We just bring you objective information, warts and all.

The simplest definition would be ´If it has no rigorous clinical trial to support it, then it is an unproven alternative therapy´. If it did have solid research, then it would instantly become ´mainstream´.

In this section we have decided to list those treatments patients are using as alternatives to the Holy Trinity of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.”